The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.